they went. But the Rakshas was waiting a little way. off to see how his father Bakshas looked by daylight; and when he saw only a deaf man, and a blind man, and a big iron kettle, and a donkey, all loaded with his gold and silver, he was very angry. So he ran off and fetched six of his friends to help him; and each of the six had hair a yard long, and tusks like an elephant.

11. When the blind man and the deaf man saw them coming, they ran and hid the treasure in the bushes; and then they got up into a lofty palm-tree, and waited. The deaf man, who could see, got up first, to be farthest out of harm's way.

Now, the seven Rakshas were not able to reach them, and so they said, "Let us get on each other's shoulders. and pull them down."

12. So one Rakshas stooped down, and the second got on his shoulders, and the third on his, and the fourth on his, and the fifth on his, and the sixth on his. Just as the seventh was climbing up, the deaf man got frightened, and caught hold of the blind man's arm and upset him, so that he tumbled down on the neck of the seventh Rakshas. The blind man thought he had fallen into the branches of another tree, and, stretching out his hands for something to take hold of, he seized the two great ears of the seventh Rakshas, and pinched them very hard.

13. This frightened the Rakshas, who lost his balance, and fell down to the ground, upsetting the other six of his friends; the blind man all the while pinching harder and harder, and the deaf man crying out from the top of the tree, "You're all right, brother; hold on tight: I'm coming down to help you"- though he really didn't mean to do any thing of the kind.

Well, the noise, and the pinching, and all the confusion, so frightened the six Rakshas that they ran away; and the seventh Rakshas, thinking that because they ran there must be great danger, shook off the blind man, and ran away too. The deaf man then came down from the tree, and embraced the blind man, and said, "I could not have done better myself."

But

14. Then he divided the treasure, one great heap for himself, and one little heap for the blind man. the blind man felt of his heap, and then felt of the other; and then gave the deaf man a box on the ear, so tremendous that it made the deaf man hear. Enraged at this, the deaf man gave the other such a blow between the eyes that it made the blind man see. Delighted at this good fortune, they became good friends directly, and divided the treasure into equal shares, and went home laughing at the stupid Rakshas.

1. "I HEAR thee speak of the better land; Thou call'st its children a happy band. Mother! oh, where is that radiant 1 shore? Shall we not seek it, and weep no more?

1 ra'di-ant, bright, glorious.

2.

3.

Is it where the flower of the orange blows, And the fire-flies dance through the myrtle boughs?' "Not there, not there, my child!"

"Is it where the feathery palm-trees rise,
And the date grows ripe under sunny skies?
Or midst the green islands of glittering seas,
Where fragrant forests perfume the breeze,
And strange, bright birds, on their starry wings,
Bear the rich hues of all glorious things?

"Not there, not there, my child!"

“Is it far away, in some region old,

Where the rivers wander o'er sands of gold?
Where the burning rays of the ruby shine,
And the diamond lights up the secret mine,
And the pearl gleams forth from the coral strand?
Is it there, sweet mother, that better land?"
"Not there, not there, my child!

4. "Eye hath not seen it, my gentle boy.
Ear hath not heard its deep songs of joy.
Dreams can not picture a world so fair.
Sorrow and death may not enter there.
Time doth not breathe on its fadeless bloom;
For beyond the clouds, and beyond the tomb,
It is there, it is there, my child!”

17.- FLOWERS OF FABLE.

ap-pend'ag-es, additions to a great- | dis-posed', inclined, willing.

er thing.

churl'ish, rude, surly.

Her'cu-les, a Greek hero. celebrated for his strength.

con-vēn'i-ent, handy, advantage- mān'ger, a cattle-trough.

ous.

Rey'nard [ra'nard], a fox.

I. THE FOX WITHOUT A TAIL.

1. A Fox who had been caught in a trap was very glad to save his life by the loss of his magnificent tail; but when he went into society again, he was so ashamed of his defect that he became quite weary of his life. However, as he could not recover his tail, he determined to make the best of a bad matter; so he called a meeting of the rest of the foxes, and proposed to them that they should follow his example.

2. "What is the use of tails?" said he: "they are ugly, draggling, unnecessary appendages; and it is astonishing that we foxes have put up with them so long. You have no idea of the comfort and ease of being without them; for my own part, I have never been so active and so brisk as I have since I got rid of my tail. I therefore propose, my brethren, that you should profit by my experience, and that from this day you should get rid of your tails."

3. Upon this a sly thief of a fox, who had formed a shrewd idea as to the reason of the loss of the fox's tail, stepped forward and said, "It strikes me, my friend, that you have found it convenient to part with